John Boswell is the musician and producer behind the Symphony of Science. The goal of the project is to bring scientific knowledge and philosophy to the public through music. So far in the series, he’s mixed together insights on topics such as the earth’s place on the cosmos, the quantum world and, as shown below an “ode to the brain,” featuring Carl Sagan, Robert Winston, and TED world favorite, Jill Bolte Taylor.

Boswell has made a similar mashup for TED, including footage from this year’s conference. Completely amazing:

The Korean education system is famed for its high levels of scholastic achievement, but as 15-year-old Seoul native Dong Woo Jang professes, not everyone responds to this kind of “pressure cooking” in the same way. His response to the high-pressure environment was an unusual one: to make wooden bows. Why? He’s not sure. Perhaps all […]

One billion. That’s a thousand millions. In other words, the number of seconds contained in 31 and a half years. The population of the continent of Africa, as of 2011. The number of inches that would stretch halfway across the Earth. And the number of users of Facebook hit in October. Our curator Chris Anderson says […]

I am hoping that this video will be available soon. I found it re-inspiring and instructive, and look forward to sharing it with my non-TEDaware friends. Timing a release immediately post-TED2012 will be excellent, while the memories are still fresh.